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NEW DELHI: The country's airbases in the forward areas will sport a new-look security system from July next year. 'Garuda', a team of highly specialised personnel, is being groomed to take over the task of manning the airfields. The first batch of some 150 airmen is currently being imparted basic training Belgaum in Karnataka. They will be offered specialised training at Mohammedpur in the Capital before being formally inducted into the Indian Air Force. While the first batch of personnel comprises mainly of airmen who have volunteered to undertake the rigours of a specialised training, being imparted by officers of the Special Protection Group, Army special forces and Navy's elite marine commandos, the commanding officers of the IAF's Airmen Selection Centres have been instructed to go in for direct recruitment from next year.

NEW DELHI: Mahanagar Telephone Nigam's Garuda customers in Delhi can now look forward to more handset choices as the state-owned company has entered into an arrangement with Nokia and Samsung for supply of WLL handsets. "Till now our customers were being offered Kyocera handsets and were also free to bring own handsets. Now we have entered into a new arrangement with Nokia and Samsung wherein customers opting for our WLL connection will have the option of procuring the handsets from Nokia and Samsung counters at MTNL's Sanchar Haats," JM Misra, executive director of MTNL said here.

MTNL scrip has been doing well for some time now due to talk of expansion outside Mumbai and Delhi. Over the past four days, the scrip has gained 13% at Rs 113. The new story doing the rounds is that it may get access to the Nepalese market for its Garuda wireless in local loop service. There is also talk of the company starting services in Chennai. Balaji gains 17% Balaji Telefilms has soared 17% over the past four days at Rs 75.60. While there is no significant change in the popularity ratings of the company's shows, market players say that a leading operator has been accumulating the scrip over the past few days.

NEW DELHI: MTNL's monsoon offer for its wireless in local loop (WLL) services in Delhi has fetched it 10,000 consumers in the first five days, a great leap forward from its earlier achievement of 1,000 consumers since the launch of its CDMA 1x services on May 19. MTNL is planning to offer SMS services on Garuda within a month. "Good quality of voice and data services are the main reasons for the success of our Garuda services," said J M Mishra, executive director of MTNL (Delhi)

NEW DELHI: Ranbaxy Laboratories has prepared a new pill for growth. Christened 'Vision Garuda', it's a 10-year roadmap to attain significant growth, positioning Ranbaxy as a research-based global pharmaceutical company. The vision statement, a brainchild of company CEO and MD DS Brar, targets to scale a turnover of $5 billion by 2012, company sources said. In 2002, Ranbaxy has notched up a turnover of Rs 2,768.6 crore, registering an increase of 42.6 per cent over 2001. The vision plan envisages to develop two-to-three patented new drugs (from new molecules)

NEW DELHI: Communications minister Arun Shourie will launch Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd's revamped limited mobility service, Garuda on Saturday. The new CDMA-based mobile service will see MTNL offer a tariff of 14 paise per 12 second pulse, working out to 70 paise per minute. MTNL's CDMA 1X 3G technology-based network for 100,000 lines has been ready in Delhi for some time. The launch of the service had been held back for want of regulatory clearance. Trai had objected to MTNL's tariff filing of a 12-second pulse.

NEW DELHI: There are as many as 21,890 subscribers for MTNL's Garuda mobile service in the national capital as on June 30, 2002, Lok Sabha was told on Wednesday. There was no waiting list for the service as the booking was closed because the exchange capacity has been fully utilised, Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology Sumitra Mahajan said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha. Efforts were being made to make telephones available on demand in the national capital during the current year as per the objective of the 10th Five Year Plan, she said.